Tripura West (Lok Sabha constituency)
Bye election 2002

Party
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±
-
CPI(M)
Khagen Das
3,94,364
57.07%
-
-
INC
Manik Deb
2,43,521
35.63%
-
-
Trinamool Congress
Sudhir Ranjan Majumder
33,353
4.88%
-
-
Amra Bangalee
Rakhal Raj Datta
4,538
0.66%
-
-
Independent
Sukumar Ghosh
2,132
0.31%
-
-
NCP
Rajkumar Kamaljit Singh
1,998
0.29%
-
-
Independent
Biswajit Debnath
1,357
0.21%
-
-
Independent
Ramu Banik
1,333
0.20%
-
-
Independent
Jitendra Chandra Das
828
0.12%
-
Majority
Majority
Majority
1,50,843
49.72
-
Turnout
Turnout
Turnout
7,01,159
67.50
-
-
CPI(M) hold
CPI(M) hold
Swing
-
-

Question: How did Khagen Das do compared to Manik Deb in the by-election?
Answer: In the by-election, Khagen Das of CPI(M) defeated his rival Manik Deb of Congress by 1,50,843 votes.